Heater
['hiːtə] or ['hitɚ]
Definition
(noun.) device that heats water or supplies warmth to a room.
Checked by Curtis--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) One who, or that which, heats.
(n.) Any contrivance or implement, as a furnace, stove, or other heated body or vessel, etc., used to impart heat to something, or to contain something to be heated.
Checker: Lowell
Examples
- Temple Bar gets so hot that it is, to the adjacent Strand and Fleet Street, what a heater is in an urn, and keeps them simmering all night. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- All that is now necessary is to put in the windows, doors, heater, and lighting fixtures, and to connect up the plumbing and heating arrangements, thus making the house ready for occupancy. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- This style of heater will quickly heat a glass of water by simply immersing the heater in the water. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- ELECTRIC IMMERSION HEATER] Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- ELECTRIC BOUDOIR SET THREE-POUND IRON Stand for converting the iron into small stove, curling tongs heater, felt bag. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Dowsing, one of the pioneers of electric cooking, exhibited electric cookers and heaters at the Crystal Palace Electrical Exposition in London, was much interest manifested. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- This incubator contains the germs of modern water heaters. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
Checked by Alyson